publications

Scientific journals

Cunis, T. & Kolmanovsky, I. (2021). Viability, viscosity, and storage functions for model-predictive control with terminal constraints. Automatica 131, 109748. [doi]

Skibik, T., Liao-Mc Pherson, D., Cunis, T., Kolmanovsky, I., & Nicotra, M. (2021) A Feasibility Governor for Enlarging the Region of Attraction of Linear Model Predictive Controllers. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (in press). [doi]

Cunis, T., Condomines, J.-P., & Burlion, L. (2020). Sum-of-squares flight control synthesis for deep-stall recovery. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics Vol 43, No. 8, pp. 1498–1511. [doi]

Cunis, T., Condomines, J.-P., & Burlion, L. (2020). Local stability analysis for large polynomial spline systems. Automatica Vol. 113, March 2020, 108773. [doi] [ScienceDirect]

Cunis, T., Condomines, J.-P., Burlion, L., & la Cour-Harbo, A. (2020). Dynamic stability analysis of aircraft flight in deep-stall. Journal of Aircraft Vol. 57, No. 1, 143—155. [doi] [AIAA]

Cunis, T., Burlion, L., & Condomines, J.-P. (2019). Piecewise polynomial modeling for control and analysis of aircraft dynamics beyond stall. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 949—957. [doi] [AIAA]

Karásek, M., Perçin, M., Cunis, T., et al. (2019). Accurate position control of a flapping-wing robot enabling free-flight flow visualization in a wind tunnel. International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles Vol 11, January 2019. [doi]

Peer-reviewed conferences

Cunis, T., Liao-McPherson, D., Burlion, L., & Kolmanovsky, I. (2020). Model-Predictive Spiral and Spin Upset Recovery Control for the Generic Transport Model Simulation. To be presented in 4th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, Montréal, CA.

Cunis, T., Liao-McPherson, D., Condomines, J.-P., Burlion, L., & Kolmanovsky, I. (2019). Economic Model-Predictive Control Strategies for Aircraft Deep-stall Recovery with Stability Guarantees. In 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Nice, FR. [doi]

Cunis, T. & Baskaya, E. (2018). Performance of Unmanned Aircrafts in the Event of Loss-of-control. In 10th International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition. Melbourne, AU. [pdf]

Cunis, T. (2018). The pwpfit Toolbox for Polynomial and Piece-wise Polynomial Data Fitting. In 18th IFAC Symposium on System Identification. Stockholm, SE. [doi] [IFAC-Online]

Cunis, T., Leth, T., Totu, L. C., & la Cour-Harbo, A. (2018). Identification of Thrust, Lift, and Drag for Deep-stall Flight Data of a Fixed-wing Unmanned Aircraft. In 2018 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Dallas, US-TX. [doi] [IEEE Xplore]

Cunis, T., Burlion, L., & Condomines, J.-P. (2018). Piece-wise Identification and Analysis of the Aerodynamic Coefficients, Trim Conditions, and Safe Sets of the Generic Transport Model. In AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference. Kissimmee, US-FL. [doi] [AIAA]

Cunis, T., Condomines, J.-P., & Burlion, L. (2017). Full-envelope, Six-Degrees-of-Freedom Trim Analysis of Unmanned Aerial Systems based on Piece-wise Polynomial Aerodynamic Coefficients. In 4th Workshop on Research, Education, and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems. Linköping, SE. [doi] [IEEE Xplore]

Cunis, T., & Bronz, M. (2017). EDURA: an Evolvable Demonstrator for Upset Recovery Approaches with a 3D-printed Launcher. In 9th International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition. Toulouse, FR. [pdf]

Cunis, T., Burlion, L., & Condomines, J.-P. (2017). Non-linear Analysis and Control Proposal for In-flight Loss-of-control. In Preprints of the 20th IFAC World Congress. Toulouse, FR. [ResearchGate]

Cunis, T., Karásek, M., & de Croon, G. C. H. E. (2016). Precision Position Control of the DelFly II Flapping-wing Micro Air Vehicle in a Wind-tunnel. In 8th International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition. Beijing, CN. [pdf]

Further publications

Liao-McPherson, D., Cunis, T., & Kolmanovsky, I. (2020). Semismooth and Variational Methods for Real-time Dynamic Optimization. Poster presentation in TRI Joint University Workshop, Stanford, US-CA.

Cunis, T. & la Cour-harbo, A. (2019). Piecewise Polynomial Model of the Aerodynamic Coefficients of the Cumulus One Unmanned Aircraft. Technical report hal-02280789, Sky-Watch A/S, Støvring, DK. [hal]

Cunis, T. & Gluschitz, S. (2018). Talking Aviation Safety: How to make airplanes safer. Poster presentation in EuroScience Open Forum 2018. Toulouse, FR. [ResearchGate]

Cunis, T., Burlion, L., & Condomines, J.-P. (2018). Piecewise Polynomial Model of the Aerodynamic Coefficients of the Generic Transport Model and its Equations of Motion. Technical report hal-01808649, ONERA — The French Aerospace Lab, Toulouse, FR. [hal]

Cunis, T. (2016). Delfly Position Control. Karrierestart Young Professionals Technik, (WS 2016), p. 164. [KYPtech] [pdf]

Theses

Cunis, T. (2019). Modeling, Analysis, and Control for Upset Recovery: From system theory to unmanned aircraft flight. Doctoral thesis, ISAE-Supaéro, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, FR. [theses.fr] [tel]

Cunis, T. (2016). Precise Position Control of a Flapping-wing Micro Air Vehicle in a Wind-tunnel. Master's thesis, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, DE. [pdf] [ResearchGate]

Cunis, T. (2014). Implementation and Evaluation of the Tschauner-Hempel Equations within a Rendezvous and Docking Maneuver in Elliptical Orbits. Bachelor's thesis, Julius Maximilian University Würzburg, Würzburg, DE. [pdf] [ResearchGate]

Cunis, T. (2013). Decidability of Differences of Level 3/2 Languages of the Straubing Thérien Hierarchy. Bachelor's thesis, Julius Maximilian University Würzburg, Würzburg, DE. [pdf] [ResearchGate]